orthodontics

English

Etymology

From ortho- (“correct, straight”) +‎ -odont +‎ -ics.

Pronunciation

enPR: ōrthôdôntīks
Hyphenation: or‧tho‧don‧tics

Noun

orthodontics (uncountable)

(medicine) A specialty of dentistry concerned with correcting misalignment of teeth.

Synonyms

orthodontia

Hypernyms

dentistry (hypernymous from most cognitive viewpoints albeit sometimes framed as coordinate when the notion of general dentistry is implied)

Coordinate terms

prosthodontics

Translations

correcting misalignment of teeth

Armenian: օրթոդոնտիա (ōrtʿodontia)
Azerbaijani: ortodontiya
Catalan: ortodòncia f, ortodontologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 牙齒矯正／牙齿矫正 (yáchǐ jiǎozhèng), 正畸 (zhèngjī), (as a field of study) 齒顎矯正學／齿颚矫正学 (chǐ'è jiǎozhèng xué)
Czech: ortodoncie f
Dutch: orthodontie (nl) f
Finnish: oikomishoito (fi), hampaiden oionta
French: orthodontie (fr)
German: Kieferorthopädie f
Greek: ορθοδοντική (el) f (orthodontikí)
Hungarian: fogszabályozás (hu)
Italian: ortodonzia (it) f
Portuguese: ortodontia (pt) f
Spanish: ortodoncia (es) f
Swedish: ortodonti (sv) c, tandreglering (sv) c
Vietnamese: chỉnh nha, chỉnh hình răng, chỉnh răng

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